The term “Wandering Jew” commonly refers to several Tradescantia species, including Tradescantia zebrina, Tradescantia fluminensis, and Tradescantia pallida. All varieties share similar care needs, ...

My daughter and I walked through the local garden center trying to find a plant we had admired on a front porch in our neighborhood. It had beautiful magenta and blue-green leaves that spilled from a ...

Q: I had a zebra vine with pinkish leaves that I wanted to propagate. Two pieces fell off when someone brushed against it, so I stuck them into two paper cups filled with damp potting soil. They were ...

What’s purple, crawls without legs, and is of the Mosaic persuasion? I hope you give up, because if you’re still trying to guess, I shouldn’t be telling you that it’s a Wandering Jew. Where mine ...

Creeping foxglove or Asystasia gangetica, with its attractive white flowers, is a rapid spreader and a great ground cover for shady spots. MUCH favoured by gardeners as a pretty and hardy ground cover ...

Various vining plants of the Tradescantia genus are very common throughout the Southern California area. Sometimes they are called spiderworts, sometimes wandering Jew. They are great survival plants.